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The male orca proceeded to drown the calf, as its mother tried frantically to save it. At one point, the mother rammed the other orca with such force, "blood and water" splashed into the air.
Orca mothers are known from previous research to provide their female offspring with less support than their male offspring, especially after daughters reach adulthood. The team looked at data ...
The mother orca and her newborn calf. Jared Towers/Fisheries and Oceans Canada A grisly scene unfolded off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada when a male orca attacked and killed a newborn calf ...
A new study has found that male southern resident killer whales are less likely to get scraped up by other whales when they have their post-menopausal mothers by their sides.
It wasn’t just the male orca involved. The attacker’s mother also played a role in keeping the mother of the calf at bay and ultimately dragging the dead baby away.
The adult male killer whale Moctezuma and five other killer whales (two adult females, two juveniles, one calf), in the vicinity of the juvenile whale shark, measuring around 6 meters.